Past Events

Monday 23 October

This event celebrates Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion, a rich document of the weekend home Alison and Peter Smithson built in the English countryside, which was central to their practice. Llibreria Finestres presents a conversation between the architects Eva Prats (Flores i Prats) and Anna Puigjaner (MAIO) and Soraya Smithson, artist and daughter of Alison and Peter.

Wednesday 25 October

Join us to celebrate the launch of Alison and Peter Smithson's Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion, a rich and immersive document of the lives they lived at the weekend home they built in English countryside for their young family. A panel including Ingrid Schroder (director of the AA), Paul Clarke (Belfast School of Architecture), Niall Hobhouse (founder of Drawing Matter), and Sam Johnson-Schlee (geographer and author) will discuss this illuminating personal project and the far-reaching influence of the Smithsons today.

Wednesday 25 October

Carol Armstrong will be in conversation with Joanna Fiduccia at Yale University to celebrate the launch of Painting Photography Painting, her essential first collection of essays that bring together writings on French painting, early photography, feminist theory and the representation of women and gender across nineteenth and twentieth century art history.

Wednesday 25 October

Join Lucy Raven in conversation with David Levi Strauss at Printed Matter / St Marks in New York to celebrate the launch of her artist's book Socorro!

Saturday 28 October

Join Jim Godlberg in Los Angeles for a conversation about his dazzling new book Coming and Going, with Douglas Fogle.

Thursday 12 October

Join Lucy Raven at Lisson Gallery during Frieze Week to celebrate the launch of her artist's book Socorro!, a series of delicate shadowgrams made at an explosives range in the New Mexico desert.

Thursday 21 September

Chaired by Financial Times architecture critic Edwin Heathcote, this discussion hosted by The Architecture Foundation will consider the history and continued relevance of a quintessential London housing type: the mansion block. The evening will include contributions from Karin Templin, author of the newly published At Home in London: The Mansion Block; housing expert Claire Bennie; and architects Richard Lavington (Maccreanor Lavington) and Alfredo Carraballo (Allies & Morrison).